Happy New Year 2026 from the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies!
2025 was a year of action and partnerships. With our team and partners, we made many meaningful initiatives possible.
The XVIII Annual Round Table “Holocaust Commemoration and the Ukrainian Society: Heritage and the Challenges of Today”
The XXV I.B. Medvynsky All-Ukrainian Competition of Student Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust”
The XIV Robert Kuvalek Seminar “The History of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland”
The Summer School-Seminar “History of the Holocaust in Ukraine: Research, Education, Commemoration” in partnership with the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.
Throughout the year, international and regional educational seminars, trainings, and workshops were held, including the Ukrainian-Polish training in Lublin “The Holocaust as a Starting Point” organized by the Shoah Memorial (Paris) in partnership with UCHS, and the seminar-school “Learning from the Past - Acting for the Future” together with the Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI).
A major international event was the joint seminar of UCHS and the Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies, held in Jerusalem.
This year we also launched the online course “How to Talk About the Holocaust with School Students” for teachers of history and civic education.
As part of the project “One Stone - One Life: 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv,” four new Stolpersteine were installed this autumn in the Podil, Shevchenkivskyi, Pecherskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts. In total, 14 such memorial markers have already been placed in Kyiv to honor those persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Public discussions and publications also played an important role in our work - addressing historical narratives, the challenges of contemporary memory, and responsible historical policy.Announcements
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(No) Children’s Stories Exhibition in Odesa
Starting the year with a powerful event - from January 19 to 30, 2026, Odesa will host the exhibition (No) Children’s Stories for the first time.
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Bibliographic Database “Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine”
The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies has begun work on a project to create a bibliographic database entitled Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine. The project envisages the creation of a reference resource covering various types of academic publications, as well as dissertations and educational publications
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Happy New Year 2026 from the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies!
2025 was a year of action and partnerships. With our team and partners, we made many meaningful initiatives possible.
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The Formation of Holocaust Scholarly Discourse in European Nations
On December 16, 2025, the State Institution Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine held the International Scientific Conference The Formation of Holocaust Scholarly Discourse in European Nations.
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Research Team Meeting for the Project “One Stone - One Life: 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv”
On 13 December 2025, the first in‑person meeting of school research teams took place in Kyiv. These teams are currently studying the biographies for new Stumbling Stones. Five teams from Kyiv and one from Odesa - history teachers working together with their students - are each conducting their own research.
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